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Kirsten Gillibrand

8 press releases on AI$11K from AI-industry employees and PACs

Data as of: votes Oct 21, 2026 · statements Oct 19, 2026 · contributions Oct 19, 2026 · super PAC spending Oct 23, 2026. What changed

Said and voted

Same bill, both records

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What they said

toward oversightSep 30, 2026

Gillibrand's Data Protection Act would create a federal agency to regulate data practices and algorithms used by AI and tech companies.

“Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) reintroduced the Data Protection Act. This legislation would create a new independent federal agency to protect Americans’ data, ensure fair data practice…”

toward oversightSep 15, 2026

Gillibrand demands urgent congressional guardrails and regulatory clarity on AI while criticizing Trump for lacking leadership on safety.

“***Watch Senator Gillibrand’s Full Interview Here*** Today, in an interview on CNN’s The Situation Room, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) called for immediate congressional action on regulating…”

toward oversightAug 7, 2026

Gillibrand's language access bill would require AI-assisted translation to be bias-tested, privacy-compliant, and not a replacement for qualified human interpreters.

“Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) joined a bicameral group of colleagues to introduce the Language Access for All Act, legislation to codify language access requirements for federal agenci…”

toward oversightAug 4, 2026

Gillibrand and colleagues criticize the administration's ad hoc, opaque frontier-AI oversight and demand a transparent, durable, standardized regulatory framework set with Congress.

“Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee, led four of her Senate Democratic colleagues in pressing the Trump adm…”

toward oversightJul 30, 2026

Gillibrand demands AI companies show safeguards for seniors and touts bipartisan bills to govern AI development and combat AI-driven scams.

“Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Senate Aging Committee, held a virtual press conference to sound the alarm about artificial intelligence (AI) scams targeting sen…”

toward oversightJul 29, 2026

Gillibrand demands AI companies build safeguards into chatbots and calls for stronger government power to crack down on AI-enabled scams targeting seniors.

“Seniors Lost Nearly $8 Billion To Scammers In 2025 WATCH HERE: Senators Gillibrand and Scott Discuss AI Scams on CNBC’s Squawk Box Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) continued her efforts…”

toward oversightJul 16, 2026

Gillibrand condemns the WISeR program and demands abolishing AI-driven denial of seniors' Medicare claims.

“Today, after Republicans voted to block her legislation to end the Trump administration’s WISeR pilot program, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny seniors’ medical claims, Senate Aging Com…”

toward oversightJul 14, 2026

Gillibrand applauds New York's one-year hyperscale data center moratorium and calls for federal rules of the road protecting kids, consumers, and jobs from AI harms.

“Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement regarding Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive order to implement a one-year pause for hyperscale data centers to assess for enviro…”

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How they voted

Contributions from AI-industry employees and PACs

Itemized receipts to this member's campaign committee where the contributor's employer or the contributing PAC is on the alias list. An employee's personal gift is not the company's.

$11K

From employees and investors, personally

$0

From company PACs

By employer

Company PACs in teal; employees' personal gifts in black. Spellings are unified through the alias list.

Largest gifts

DateContributorEmployer, as filedAmountFiling
Dec 7, 2025Anthony A. AlbaneseA16Z$4K↗
Dec 17, 2025Ben HorowitzANDREESSEN HOROWITZ$3K↗
Dec 17, 2025Christopher DixonANDREESSEN HOROWITZ$3K↗
Dec 7, 2025Anthony A. AlbaneseA16Z$2K↗
Mar 25, 2025Richard RinkemaMICROSOFT$1K↗

Source: OpenFEC Schedule A, itemized receipts only, 2026 cycle, read Oct 19, 2026. The FEC itemizes a contributor once their gifts to a committee pass $200 in aggregate.